Psalm 40:1-3 (Message)

I waited and waited and waited for God. At last he looked; finally he listened. He lifted me out of the ditch, pulled me from deep mud. He stood me up on a solid rock to make sure I wouldn't slip. He taught me how to sing the latest God-song, a praise-song to our God. More and more people are seeing this: they enter the mystery, abandoning themselves to God.

From A Blues Melody to a Gospel Harmony 

“I’ve been trying so hard to get over, everything I tried has been a blank…my broke and hungry days have been many, sometimes I even slept out in the streets…This is not the first time I’ve been down…But until things change I got to take it, I believe in my heart I’m gonna make it”, these are a few of the words to a popular Albert King blues melody.

These words are not the just the lyrics to a song, but they are a description of the lives many who are just “trying to make it” in these hash times. Nevertheless, David in the fortieth Psalm gives us a very powerful testimony. For all that David had been through (ostracized and overlooked by his family, scorned by his employer whom he served faithfully, rebuked by his wife, betrayed by his good friend and by his son, and the list goes on) he says that when he stopped trying to do it his way and waited on God – God pulled him up out of his mess, cleaned him off, and planted him in solid ground. Not only did God do that, but God taught him to sing a new song, a song that drew onlookers in wanting to know why has this blues singer has changed his tempo, altered his chord structure, harmonized his instruments, and began singing the gospel.

I don’t know what it is that you are going through and I don’t know what song you are singing, but I guarantee that if you wait on The Maestro, he will come in and just as he did with David change your blues melody into a gospel harmony.

Prayer 

Lord I am writing on you to come in and do what you do. Until then, help me to hold out. And Father teach me a new song so that you might get the glory and those around me be drawn to you. In Jesus’ name, AMEN!

Thought for the day 

The difference between the blues and the gospel is tempo, chord structure, and harmony.